Joseph Hoffman
BAS Honorary Fellow
BAS Honorary Fellow Professor Joe Hoffman (PhD, Cambridge University) is an evolutionary geneticist based at Bielefeld University in Germany. He has been working closely with researchers from BAS for over two decades and has co-authored over fifty scientific papers on the genetics of Antarctic organisms. His research contributes toward understanding the basic biology, population dynamics and evolutionary potential of Antarctic marine organisms, with a main focus on Antarctic fur seals and benthic marine invertebrates. He has supervised nine PhD students, published 125 scientific articles and obtained grant income in excess of €5M over the past ten years.
Brief CV
2019 Honorary Professor of the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
2018 Extraordinary Professor, Bielefeld University, Germany
2012 Associate Professor, Bielefeld University, Germany
2011 Assistant Professor, Bielefeld University, Germany
2008 BAS Strategic Alliance Postdoctoral Fellow
2004 Postdoctoral fellow, Cambridge University
2003 PhD in evolutionary genetics, Cambridge University
1997 MSc Integrative Bioscience, Oxford University
1994 BSc (First Class Hons) Environmental Biology, Swansea University
Research interests
Joe’s research tackles important and timely questions at the interface of evolutionary, ecological and conservation genetics by combining classical population genetics with cutting-edge population genomics. He is particularly interested in the factors that shape genetic diversity over space and time, as well as in the impacts of genetic variation on individual fitness, population demography and eco-evolutionary dynamics. His research is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary and embraces approaches as diverse as gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, stable isotope analysis, endocrinological and immunological profiling, movement analysis, in situ mesocosms, reciprocal transplant experiments and thermal challenge experiments.
Joe’s profile page can be found here https://thehoffmanlab.com